What should be noted when transplanting garlic chives?
How should a garlic chive field be managed? Please advise. After garlic chives turn green again, the withered leaves and weeds on the above-ground part should be cleared away early, the bed surface leveled, and the bed ridges tidied, so that the base of the plants can better receive sunlight, raise the soil temperature, and promote sprouting. When the soil thaws and new shoots emerge, a topdressing of diluted manure water can be applied once to promote new tender shoots. After 3 to 4 days, cultivate and loosen the soil once...
What should be noted when transplanting garlic chives? Please advise.Garlic chives have a very strong tillering ability, and there is also the phenomenon of root jumping (that is, as the garlic chives tiller, they gradually move upward in layers, and the rooting position of the garlic chives also keeps rising). Continuous growth in this way often causes the yield and quality of garlic chives to drop sharply three to four years after transplanting, and vegetable growers must replant the garlic chives to ensure high quality and high yield. So how can garlic chives be kept growing continuously and for more years? For this reason, the reporter successively visited Xianfengying, a specialized white garlic chive planting village in Wenjia Subdistrict, Shouguang City, and Wenjia Village, a specialized green garlic chive planting village, to see how they grow garlic chives.
Reasonably determine the spacing between garlic chive beds
Because white garlic chives and green garlic chives have different production processes in winter, that is, white garlic chives need to be covered with soil during production, while green garlic chives do not, so the spacing between the garlic chive beds of the two types also differs.
For green garlic chives, because no soil covering is needed during winter production, and only space for setting up windbreaks and for walking and operating needs to be reserved, the distance between garlic chive beds can be about 0.8 m. For white garlic chives, because in winter soil needs to be taken from the front of the garlic chive beds nearby, and the amount of soil taken is relatively large, in addition to reserving space between the two garlic chive beds for setting up windbreaks, space also needs to be left for convenient soil taking, so the width between garlic chive beds should be larger; generally, a spacing of about 1.6 m between two garlic chive beds is better.
Scientific close planting extends the garlic chive growing years
If garlic chives are planted too densely at transplanting, although high yield can be obtained quickly, it is also very easy, because the garlic chives tiller too quickly, for the yield and quality of the garlic chives to drop rapidly about 3 years after transplanting, and vegetable growers have to raise new seedlings and renew the planting again, which costs labor and effort. Therefore, attention should be paid to reasonable close planting at transplanting.
Generally, planting 30-40 plants per 2 m long garlic chive ridge, with a row spacing of about 28 cm, can extend the renewal period of garlic chives, and is also conducive to making the garlic chives grow thick and strong with good quality. This is because garlic chives tiller most rapidly in the first year after transplanting, so the garlic chives planted in that year, if used to produce white garlic chives, can also reach a yield of about 5 jin per ridge, and by the second year can reach a yield of about 8 jin, and can maintain this for 3 years. If vegetable growers plant about 50 plants per 2 m long garlic chive ridge, although in that year they can obtain a yield of about 6 jin per ridge when producing white garlic chives, the high-yield period of the garlic chives can only be maintained for 2 years, so in the long run this is not conducive to improving the yield and benefits of garlic chives. Therefore, when transplanting garlic chives, vegetable growers must pay attention to the transplanting density.
The transplanting depth must be reasonable
Research shows that the deeper garlic chives are transplanted, the weaker the tillering ability and the slower the root jumping; if transplanted too shallowly, the tillering ability of garlic chives is strong and root jumping occurs quickly, which will soon cause the root system of the garlic chives to grow above the ground surface and affect the usable growing years of the garlic chives. Generally, a transplanting depth of 5-6 cm is most suitable for garlic chives.
Such a transplanting depth neither affects the tillering of the plants nor prevents the problem of too short a growing period caused by root jumping, extending the renewal period of the garlic chive beds to about 5 years.
Newly transplanted garlic chives must not be allowed to keep flower stalks
In order to ensure the yield of garlic chives and promote the swelling and tillering of the false stems, attention should be paid to inhibiting the reproductive growth of the plants and promoting their vegetative growth. The newly grown flower stalks of garlic chives should be removed in time, so as to ensure that the nutrients produced by the leaves are concentrated to supply the swelling of the false stems of the garlic chives, laying the foundation for high quality and high yield in winter.
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